When they shout Allah Akbar, it generally means in any translation: Duck and Cover….
YahooNews: Andrew Neil has blasted the “scumbags” of ISIS in a rant on BBC show This Week.
The former newspaper editor labelled the so-called Islamic State, “Islamic Scumbags”, adding: “Whatever atrocities you’re currently capable of committing, you will lose.
“In 1,000 years’ time Paris, that glorious city of lights, will still be shining bright, as will every other city like it.
“While you will be as dust, along with the ragbag of Fascists, Nazis and Stalinists who have previously dared to challenge democracy and failed.”
The rant, which has been shared thousands of times on Twitter, was delivered late last night on BBC politics show This Week in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks which claimed the lives of 129 people last Friday.
“Welcome to This Week,” began Neil. “The week in which a bunch of loser jihadists slaughtered 132 innocents in Paris to prove the future belongs to them rather than a civilisation like France.
“Well I can’t say I fancy their chances,” he declared, adding that France is the country of “Descartes, Monet, Cézanne and Gauguin,” name checking a slew of scientific and cultural names along with French fashion designers, food and musicians.
“Cutting edge science, world class medicine, fearsome security forces, nuclear power, Coco Chanel, Chateau Lafite, Coq Au Vin, Daft Punk, Zizou Zidane, Juliette Binoche, liberté, égalité, fraternité, and crème brûlée,” he listed.
Andrew Neil on This Week, top pic (BBC/Twitter) and the Eiffel Tower lit up in the colours of the French flag in the wake of the Paris attacks (Rex)
And ISIS would have little chance, said Neil, with their “Beheadings, crucifixions, amputations, slavery, mass murder, medieval squalor, a death cult barbarity that would shame the Middle Ages.”
Despite Neil’s speech being shared 8,000 times, comic Jenny Eclair was first to criticise it as being too similar to a recent televised tirade from HBO host John Oliver.
“@bbcthisweek @afneil this is a rip of viv the vastly superior John Oliver rant – sack your second hand script writers,” she wrote.
However, the speech won many fans among social media. Caroline Morris tweeted: “Thank you Andrew for this excellent monologue – from the heart,” while Joani Walsh wrote: “Awesome. Freakin’ awesome. Even more stirring than footie fans singing the Frenchie national anthem.”
“Proof that you can be opinionated on the BBC. @AfNeil superb as ever,” added Twitter user Iain Dale.
Andrew Neil’s speech in full
Good evening all, welcome to This Week. A week in which a bunch of loser Jihadists slaughtered 132 innocents in Paris to prove the future belongs to them, rather than a civilisation like France. Well I can’t say I fancy their chances.
‘France – the country of Descartes, Boullée, Monet, Sartre, Rousseau, Camou, Renoit, Berlioz, Cezanne, Gogan, Hugo, Voltaire, Matisse, Debussy, Ravel, Sanson, Bizet, Satie, Pasteur, Moliere, Franc, Zola, Balzac, Poulenc.
‘Cutting edge science, world class medicine, fearsome security forces, nuclear power, Coco Chanel, Chateau Lafite, coq au vin, Daft Punk, Zizou Zidane, Juliette Binoche, Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and creme brûlée.
‘Versus what? Beheadings, crucifixions, amputations, slavery, mass murder, medieval squalor, a death cult barbarity that would shame the Middle Ages. Well I.S. or Daesh or ISIS or ISIL, or whatever name you’re going by, I’m sticking with I.S. – as in ‘Islamist Scumbags’. I think the outcome is pretty clear to everybody but you. Whatever atrocities you’re currently capable of committing – you will lose.
‘In a thousand years’ time Paris – that glorious city of lights – will still be shining bright, as will every other city like it, while you will be as dust, along with a rag-bag of fascist, Nazis and Stalinists who have previously dared to challenge democracy – and failed.’
